sacred geometry videos

Infinite Recursive Zoom In of Nested Platonic Solids

Thursday, 4 August 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Infinite Nested Platonic Solid Recursion

This continuous loop rotates around a nest of the five Platonic Solids: Cube (red), Tetrahedron (yellow), Octahedron (green), Icosahedron (blue) and Dodecahedron (purple), returning to a cube oriented along the same x-y-z axes one third the size in each dimension as the outer cube. The transparency of the inner cube changes from 100% opaque to 100% transparent as the animation proceeds, which allows playing as an infinte recursive loop. Each “new cube” (as one loop of the animation completes) has 1/27th the volume of the original, since the side length is 1/3 of the starting cube.

This is a higher resolution version of the clip originally uploaded to YouTube on March 31,2007.

Dodecadodecahedron screen saver

Friday, 17 June 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Dave Van Dyke of Z Axis Graphics, who generated this lovely Dodecadodecahedron animation video, just generously contributed a free companion Dodecadodecahedron screen saver (Windows only; In Windows it wants to install in C:\Windows\system32\); enjoy!!! Dave’s comment about the screen saver gift: “…just thought it would be fun.” Thanks, Dave!!!

Notes from the animator (Dave Van Dyke):
The dodecahedron was created and animated using 3DS Max. If you intend to animate the “P” and “Q” parameters of the Hedra you must use the Edit Mesh modifier. The Edit Poly modifier will not work. The nice Glow effect is an option in the Mental Ray renderer found under the Renderer Tab. The frame is formed by making a copy of the dodecahedron and applying the Lattice modifier. The material assigned to the dodecahedron is a Multi/subObject material. The material for the star faces and the remainder of the dodecadodecahedron are the same. Having two materials that are the same allows you to take control of the transparency of one selection set of polygons leaving the others unaffected.

Update (16July2011): Dave has again contributed another interesting screensaver. This one is an organic-looking simulation of magnetic particles streaming around the magnetic lines of force defined by a torus. Thanks again, Dave!

Sacred Geometry Communities

Sunday, 13 March 2011 by Bruce Rawles

The Geometry Code – Sacred Geometry Blog – Conversations – Global Community (this is a blog-ish page from our prior site)

Videos: interviews and more

Here’s a video interview about The Seven Hermetic Laws, Sacred Geometry and more with Alan Steinfeld of New Realities and Bruce Rawles now on YouTube (originally on Emerald Energies) recorded in Sedona, Arizona at the Global Sacred Geometry Conference in Feb 2004. Thanks also to Alan Gutierrez and Angélique DeWolfe for their efforts with this interview.

Here’s a video by Dan Shaw (a long time fellow geometer) of my commentary on the Planetary Geometries: Martineau Solar System Series artwork when it was at the Mobius in Ashland, Oregon during April, 2007.

Audios: interviews and more

This is an audio interview with Jake Steele of Author’s Audio about sacred geometry, the Great Pyramid and more.

Geometric Animations

Here’s an animation I did showing how the Platonic Solids nest perfectly in an infinite recursive 3:1 size scaled loop with each iteration oriented the same – the original video has MUCH better resolution… and the looping is seamless in the QuickTime viewer! There are more details on my blog.)

Local Community (Southern Oregon)
Ashland Geometers – a.k.a. Hedronists

We have a wonderful group of kindred geometers that meet somewhat regularly in Ashland, Oregon; we call ourselves by the whimsical name “Hedronists”. We previously had links to our collaborative video/dialogues presence on MySpace, LuminosityWeb, and ning.

Here’s my individual YouTube site, which has one of our Hedronists meetings in parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

For more, please visit our Resources and Events pages.

Sacred Geometry Blog Post Archives

Saturday, 12 March 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Here are some archives of past blog posts (on my personal blog) on a variety of sacred geometry and related topics. Now that the new website has a blog devoted to sacred geometry, you’ll find the new posts on this site.